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Speaker 1: Christian o'connald show, My weekend two like a footy gamer

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Speaker 1: two very distinct halfs Saturday was amazing, saturd Night great

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Speaker 1: at the g see the d's go six and zero.

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Speaker 1: And then there was yesterday. Yesterday felt like and every

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Speaker 1: single mom and dad were teenage children. You'll have had

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Speaker 1: a day like my wife and I yesterday where you

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Speaker 1: actually feel like they got together night before and went, hey, listen,

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Speaker 1: when they wake up, let's just screw with them. Every

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Speaker 1: single minute of the day a constant battle. I felt

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Speaker 1: like I was behind a barricade that hadn't been asked

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Speaker 1: to be behind. I woke up with nice intentions and

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Speaker 1: said to my wife, why we wake the kids up

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Speaker 1: a bit earlier and all go out for breakfast together.

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Speaker 1: Next thing we know, we're having a massive, full scale

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Speaker 1: family argument that we may need to have family therapy

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Speaker 1: together on the beach with the dogs. And I'm Sometimes

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Speaker 1: you're in an argument and you rise above it, or

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Speaker 1: you're thinking are we arguing about? And at one moment

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Speaker 1: I hear my wife yelling at me, Chris, Chris, what

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Speaker 1: do you think? Back me up here? And the kids

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Speaker 1: look at me and they're like looking at me going

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Speaker 1: grow some balls down. They don't know what's the right answer.

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Speaker 1: You just walk into the ocean.

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Speaker 2: Just keep going, just keep going, a constant running battle

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Speaker 2: yesterday and then it peaks at four o'clock and this

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Speaker 2: is the song that sums up yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Out of nowhere. Both of our daughters, we've conceded with

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Speaker 1: the piercings like pincushions they've got. First thought was ear rings, okay.

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Speaker 1: Then it was like, we want seconds. All of our

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Speaker 1: friends have got seconds, which means two piercings in the years.

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Speaker 1: And then it was the nose piercing, and this we

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Speaker 1: weirdly struggling wife and I. Wife and I were like,

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Speaker 1: this will affet your chances of employment when you're older.

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Speaker 1: You'll be if you go to run a law firm

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Speaker 1: Google Barkley, Mongo, they will take one look at this

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Speaker 1: and t not represent this firm. And they were like,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to work. It is some stuffy old

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Speaker 1: law firm, you know. And then I made the mistake

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Speaker 1: of going, actually, my world, there are loads of it.

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Speaker 1: Were piercings. You don't even think twice about. One's glaring

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Speaker 1: at me like wrong answer, yes, sir. At four o'clock.

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Speaker 1: One of the kids can't name them, cannot name them.

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Speaker 1: One then goes, oh, if I don't sort this nose,

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Speaker 1: pissing out, they're sending me home from school tomorrow. I'm like, what, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they've got a school rule about you know those piercings

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Speaker 1: cover them up or have like a sea through one.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, well, look, sometimes in life there are just rules.

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Speaker 1: You've got to pick your battles. An hour and a

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Speaker 1: half we had talk about why schools, why the world

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Speaker 1: has rules. Well, you didn't make the rules of school.

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Speaker 1: That's not your fault. But you know who I am

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Speaker 1: in this situation they're projecting me. I am the man.

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Speaker 1: Like I said, I don't want to represent the man.

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Speaker 1: I'm the man. I'm the man, and then she am

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Speaker 1: the man and I'm not really a man. I'm barely

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Speaker 1: a man anatomically. It's the only thing that makes me

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Speaker 1: a man. Something died in me. Yes, so into a

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Speaker 1: bed of sack shell of a man that woke up.

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Speaker 1: They were like, yeah, I get sent home from school. No, no,

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Speaker 1: that is that is not there are there are rules

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Speaker 1: in life. You don't have rules, And I went, I do, Actually,

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Speaker 1: there are rules, even in my job, there are hard

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Speaker 1: rules where you come up against it, and that's the world.

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Speaker 1: There are gonna be sometimes where they don't make any

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Speaker 1: sense for you. But the world, and this is a

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Speaker 1: really horrible thing if you don't understand. But the world

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Speaker 1: isn't actually made for us. We have to try and

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Speaker 1: carve out our own way in it. And sometimes there

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Speaker 1: becomes well you can't carve anymore, and you've got to

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Speaker 1: work out your own bit of independence. You've got to

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Speaker 1: you've got to sort the nose ring out. They don't.

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Speaker 1: They will send you home.

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Speaker 3: But they are the protest generation. Like anytime they come

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Speaker 3: up against something they're not happy with, they're like, well,

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Speaker 3: I'll take a stand, I won't go to school.

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Speaker 1: Well I said this. I didn't want to crush them, Okay,

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Speaker 1: because actually is really interesting the one everyone wants to

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Speaker 1: have their voice felt, and they should do. I said,

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Speaker 1: why didn't you ask to sit down with the school

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Speaker 1: and just explain your viewpoints out? I respect you have

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Speaker 1: to have rules. Could we just have a conversation, a

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Speaker 1: dialog about.

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Speaker 3: Essentially taking the argument we're having now between dad and

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Speaker 3: daughter and take that to the school.

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Speaker 2: Well done, Jackie, by your rules not my school.

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Speaker 1: I had them to you for a couple of hours.

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Speaker 1: You sort it out. Why am I going to sort

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Speaker 1: this out? Oh? There have been in the morning for

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Speaker 1: me sometimes this show anyway, I remember, did you have

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Speaker 1: any piercings as a kid? I my mate, right, Toby Pierce,

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Speaker 1: my em I got my ear pierce when I was sixteen,

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Speaker 1: and he did it Diy. We did a couple of

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Speaker 1: beers and he got a clothes peg that I put

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Speaker 1: left it on there for about five minutes. Took the

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Speaker 1: clothes peg off, got a safety pin and put it through.

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Speaker 1: Do not do this. I got a severe infection and

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Speaker 1: had to go to hospital. Right, I had to have

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Speaker 1: some injections of blood poison. Another mate of mine he

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Speaker 1: got two frozen sausages either side of his. Isn't it

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Speaker 1: the same thing? Safety pin through it? Did you have

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Speaker 1: any piercings?

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Speaker 3: My mom and dad were pretty lenient, but the only

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Speaker 3: thing they do is said no to a piercing. I

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Speaker 3: wanted to get and then thank god I didn't get

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Speaker 3: eyebrow piercing.

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Speaker 1: And they said, part of me wish is we could

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Speaker 1: go back in a time machine. I pay your mum

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Speaker 1: and do some money. So that we could just see

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Speaker 1: the phoots of you with a bin in the ice

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Speaker 1: baby and eyebrown piercing. Aren't you relieved sometimes for the nose?

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